Road mishaps claimed as many as 13 lives in Azamgarh and lakhimpur Kheri respectively during the last 24 hours.
In Azamgarh, half a dozen persons including a woman and two kids died while two others suffered serious injuries when a car rammed into a stationary truck in Kaptanganj area late on Wednesday night.
As per reports, two families were going by a car to Asifganj from lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday night. The car driver failed to notice a stationary truck parked on Azamgarh-Faizabad road near Terahi power sub-station and rammed into it. The resultant impact left six occupants dead. While Pulkesh Charo (32), his wife Shilpi Soni (30), daughter Chahat Charo (10) and Mahesh Soni (30) died on the spot, four others received serious injuries and on being hospitalised, Mahesh Soni’s daughter and another person died during treatment on Thursday morning. The Soni family belongs to Kamlapur village of Khajuria area of Kheri. Injured Majana Devi and her eight- month-old son are being treated at a private hospital.
In lakhimpur Kheri, 7 persons including two women, were killed and four others critically injured in two separate road mishaps.
late on Wednesday night, people were sitting by a bonfire by the Pilibhit-Basti highway near Mahrajnagar villagewhen they were hit by a speeding truck. The driver lost control over the vehicle after colliding with a tractor-trolley. The mishap killed five persons and injured four ohers. The decease were identified as Radhey Shyam (40), Kokila (38), Sanjay (25), Pooja (15) and Prahlad (48). The injured were admitted to the district hospital where the condition of Moti’s wife Guddi is stated to be critical.
In the second mishap at Kheri, two persons were killed when the car they were travelling in collided head-on with a truck on the Bhira-Pallia road near Malpur. One of the deceased was identified as lIC employee Atul (30) posted at Palia, while the identity of the other was yet to be ascertained. A case was registered and the bodies were sent for autopsy.